Chapter 69 - 62 (1/2)

”Are you finished yet!?” Hinata asked Airi from outside the bug dome.

”Almost! Just give me a little bit more time! 2 Minutes is enough!” Airi replied from inside the bug dome.

”Hikaru-dono is as strong as ever. To take on the four of them and still hold back a large margin of his strength, truly such a powerful shinobi.” Shino said as he adjusted his sunglasses.

”Tch, if we just give them our support, then that Hikaru would probably lose. C'mon, Temari, let's go there and fight alongside them!” Kankuro said, feeling a little bit angered that he's just staring at the fight in front of him and could not do anything.

He was just about to charge straight in but Temari was faster with her giant fan. With one swing, she hit his head with her giant fan, making him fall flat on the ground.

”Dumbass, if we go there now, there's a huge chance that Hikaru would take notice of what we're doing right now. He may just attack us but even if he doesn��t attack us, we still need to take caution.”Temari sighed before she stared down at Kankuro and said, ”Remember this well, Hikaru is on a completely different level. Maybe even in our lifetime, we wouldn't be able to catch up to him.”

Hikaru is strong, his powers could not be measured by any means. Maybe even he himself doesn't know how powerful he is. Shino and the others has never seen him go all out. Even after they've graduated from the academy, it seems like he's grown a hundred times more than back then. Maybe one day, they would be able to see just how strong he is.

(Scene Change)

”Interesting, interesting! Let me see how you will all beat me, I am curious!” Hikaru yelled as his smile grew bigger.

Gaara rushed straight at Hikaru with hundreds upon hundreds of sand shuriken following him.

Sasuke weaved a single hand sign before shouting, ”Katon: Housenka no Jutsu!” 7 volley of flames came out of Sasuke's mouth before he controlled the flames to go directly towards Hikaru. The small volley of flames rushed at Hikaru at an incredible speed but hidden inside those flames were explosive kunais, making it even more deadlier.

”Taju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” Hundreds of clones appeared in a large poof of smoke.

”Now for the real part! All of you, make a rasengan!” Azumi shouted to her army of clones.

Meanwhile, with Hikaru…

Before Gaara could reach him, Hikaru suddenly vanished from his vision. He stopped mid-run before,looking around for any signs of Hikaru. Yet he only found nothing. Until he heard a slight whistle from the wind, it was coming from above!

BOOM!

Hikaru had jumped above them before he kicked the air and was about to land a punch towards Gaara but it was blocked by his automatic sand defense.

Hikaru pushed his hand away from the sand and landed back on the ground but the flames that Sasuke fired earlier suddenly came from behind him!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom Boom! Boom! Boom!

The fireballs exploded and the force was so great that it launched Hikaru towards Azumi, who's currently waiting for Azumi with her army of shadow clones. All of them has a rasengan in hand!

”I've been waiting for this! Take this!” Azumi shouted as she and the rest of her shadow clones attacked Hikaru with their rasengan.

”Ultimate Rasengan Barrage!”

Hikaru did not dodge the barrage of rasengan coming towards him as he was launched towards Azumi.

WHOOSH!! BOOM!!

A huge dome of chakra was created when Azumi's and her clones' rasengans directly hit Hikaru.

As the dome of chakra slowly rescinded, they could finally see Hikaru's figure.

He stood there as if he was shocked. His current armor, which was Chester's set, has been destroyed! Only his pants were left but the upper top was completely destroyed.

”To be able to destroy my armor, how amazing!” *Clap* *clap* clap* Hikaru clapped but, suddenly, he threw up blood!

”Tch, the rotating force of her rasengan barrage messed up some of my organs. I need to fix it soon.” Hikaru took out an old radiant lifegem from his storage box before crushing it. It healed most of his damaged organs but some are slow at recovery.

'To be able to injure me this much, how wonderful! She must've figured out that, although my skin is very hard to pierced, my insides are not. Such a bright girl!' Hikaru thought.

”Improvised strategies, you guys are synchronized too well. But that matters not, now it's my turn to go on full offensive.” Hikaru said as the air around him distorted. He looked at Gaara and smiled.

Sasuke widened his eyes and yelled to warn him, ”Gaara! Run! His target is you!”

”Too late…” Hikaru muttered as he appeared just under Gaara before he uppercuted him, launching him a hundred kilometre towards the sky.

Hikaru then jumped towards Gaara.

Now, they were both at the top of the clouds.

”Let's see you defend against this.”

He appeared on top of Gaara before punching him straight towards the ground, hard.

Gaara fell from the skies like an asteroid, burning.

He had his sand defense up but the heat just kept getting to him. He covered himself in a dome of sand.

”Aaaaarghh!! Raaaaahhh!!” Gaara yelled in extreme pain.

As he was about to crash towards the ground, Hikaru was just in the right position to catch him with one hand.

BOOOOOM!! WHOOSH!